I'd like to congratulate the University of Utah on their FBS national championship this past season. At 13-0, the Utes have nothing left to prove, beat everyone that lined up on the other side of the football field from them and dismantled Alabama in the Sugar Bowl.

There I was – Section 135, Row 28, Seat 16 – right smack dab in the middle of the Georgia Dome watching the Atlanta Falcons hold off Tampa Bay in overtime on Sunday alongside a rocking crowd. Who'd a thunkit?

From Georgia Southern to high schools, athletic competition in Bulloch County is very popular. Here are five images from 2008 I thought told stories by themselves. How did Jayson Foster get that high off the ground!?!